Gluten-free, dairy-free, grain-free, refined sugar-free. If this is your life you are probably STILL on the endless hunt for a cookie recipe that actually looks and tastes like a cookie. Whether you have allergies, are eating Paleo, GAPS, or low-carb for healing, or just don’t want to have to detox from your dessert, cookies worth eating are an elusive thing.
These cookies are the perfect solution. I have been playing with this recipe for some time, and I have tweaked and tweaked until I love it. And not only that, today I’m going to give you two versions: chocolate chip cookies and oatmeal cinnamon raisin cookies (the oatmeal version is still gluten-free, but not grain-free).
I have experimented with multiple grain-free bases for cookies. I avoid nuts as a base for baking because high quantities of nuts and nut flours can cause problems. Pumpkin seeds are one option I love in cookies (and you can substitute them in this recipe if you love them too), but my kids weren’t fans. Sunflower seeds were a great option for a kid-approved recipe. This one was gulped down by kids who don’t eat my food on a regular basis, so I considered that the ultimate approval.
You will often see “healthy” recipes that recommend you soak your grains, nuts and seeds. Let me explain why. Soaking seeds of all kinds is important to eliminate the protective coating on the outside. That coating is there to protect the seed, but it is your nutritional nemesis. Its job is to keep all the nutrients locked up so the seed can sprout and grow at a later time. It does that job well, and that means that when you eat unsoaked nuts and seeds YOU don’t end up getting any of those great things you see on the nutrition label. The seeds keeps them all away from you. So for all the power packed nutrition you want, soak your seeds for 12 hours in water and then dehydrate them for future snacking and baking. The recipe works the same with unsoaked seeds, your body just won’t get the same nutrient punch.
So whip up a batch, sit back, and enjoy warm melt-in-your-mouth cookies that will leaving you feeling emotionally and physically rewarded.
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